Various researchers and policy analysts have made empirical studies of innovation systems in order to understand their current structure and trace their dynamics. However, policy makers often experience difficulties in extracting practical guidelines from studies of this kind. In this paper, we operationalize our previous work on a functional approach to analyzing innovation system dynamics int...

The theme of this paper is the occurrence of risks within information technology and information systems investments. A taxonomy of the published classification frameworks of IT related risk is presented and a new comprehensive classification framework for IT investments (the TOPModel) is presented within the TRIP model of the risk factors and critical factors affecting IT investments. Risk man...

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is an emerging topic in the world of business and information technology. However to date there is a lack of research on an integrated approach to GRC has hardly been researched. In this paper we construct an integrated process model for high-level IT GRC management. First, we discuss existing process models for integrated GRC. Then we set the scope of our...

4 SUMMER/FALL 1999 T’S A RACE with no starting point, no fixed course, and really no rules at all: walk, run, ride, do anything you want. Form a team, as big as you like. Build any sort of machine you wish with whatever money you can get your hands on. Just get to the finish line first. That finish line isn’t a particular place but a new understanding of a symmetry (or rather, an almost symmetr...